Mr brightside

I don't use Google, my wife knows everything. 

THINK.  This is not thread worthy.  Stop this madness.  Otherwise, this blog would be full of "where can I find X?"  

I regret that I can only give one downvote for replying to OP with 'think' in all caps.

what an asinine reply

Sorry, I don't use the Google because I don't have online :/

Who are they? Bunch of whippersnappers?

"The Killer's are becoming an old band now. "

Aren't Rolling Stones tickets going on sale tomorrow?

Having the band play "Mr. Brightside" with a Karaoke Cam would be something else worth stealing from Cornell.

Coulda swore I heard Maryland start playing it at the game this year.

Cornell hockey games are fun. Watched them wax us at MSG a few years ago. Great atmosphere.

Halftime!

When I heard “Mr. Brightside” sung by Cornell’s fans at a hockey game in Madison Square Garden and the comment from the BU fan sitting near me about having a Michigan football game break out at Madison Square Garden last Saturday, I began to wonder whether Michigan ever had tried using a song by Ann Arbor native Bob Seger to pump up the crowd.

This guy always makes me truly appreciate the musical genius in these artists while at the same time reminding me what little I truly know about music.

That song is so well . . . architected.  Everything in it is there for a purpose.

Love when he isolates the drums and the bass. Have watched most of his audio/video breakdowns of songs and enjoyed them.

I graduated in mid 2000’s so this song was right in with my college era. I liked it at the time but wasn’t obsessed with it any by any stretch. I don’t think in itself it’s particularly appropriate for Michigan football lyrically now, but I also don’t think that matters.

I have Spartan fans who asked me to explain WHY Mr. Brightside was a thing. How did it end up like this?

I think the reason why is because it’s sort of a lived experience of being a Michigan fan and living through what seemed like never ending BPONE. It’s sort of the thing that once it happens, people make their individual connection to that song and it becomes something and then it happens again and connects other people.

It had been played in the stadium before, but 2017 is really when it picked up steam, mostly due to the rain-drenched loss to MSU: https://x.com/byazuniga/status/917046798384017410?s=61

They played it for all of the 2017 season, and there were a few games before MSU where the (now common) cut off of the song caused it to go out and the crowd to keep singing. There was one completely organic instance where they came back from commercial break and stopped the music and everyone just kept on singing that I think really started it a week or two before MSU. It became a sing-along song at that point. And then you get this emotional loss to MSU, in the rain, and a very emotional song you can sing (shout) to, and it becomes a thing.

Then everyone sees a video of it and wants to participate. Then it becomes an experience of singing along to an emotional song with 100,000+.

The lyrics don’t fit now. I get that. It did more at the time (man, this fucking sucks, we used to be great, we aren’t, but there’s a sort of upbeat things can suck but hey I’m looking on the brightstide message in there). It doesn’t matter. It’s an emotional song. It’s a song you can sing/shout to at the top of your lungs and everyone around you is doing the same thing. In 2017 it fit with the emotional wreckage we all felt about the program and do anyone Millenial-ish that song gave also a giant wave of nostalgia. When I hear the song now I think Michigan football. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that would be my connection 2 decades ago. That’s a connection, and that matters. Kids coming into school now still post on social media about how cool it is it to get experience this song in the stadium as students for the first time. They bring their own emotional baggage on things not even football related and you’ve got 100,000 people shouting out this song with you. It’s an experience if you let it soak in. And that builds on itself. 

It doesn’t fit for plenty of reasons. But it also fits perfectly because it’s ours now. 

Can't knock waving to sick kids but you can have the rest of those.